Moments in history that always make you laugh just at how absurd it is

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Just what the fuck was he thinking? Did he really expect he was going to achieve anything other than getting locked up? Even Hitler was shocked at how stupid it was. And he spent the rest of his life, some 40 years, in a solitary jail cell then got killed for no reason when he was 93 years old. I imagine him sitting all the time in that cell, thinking what might have happened if he just didn't go on that plane, if he could have perhaps persuaded Hitler and changed the outcome of the war for the better so Germany might win. Then seeing the only life you know become a distant memory. Imagine having that eating you up - for 40 fucking years.

it's a sad story, desu

No shit, he was probably legitimately mentally ill. How he became the German equivalent of Vice President is a mystery.

He killed himself, actually.

>Hitler and Churchill are going to destroy Europe for their own egos
>Fly to Britain, being Hitler's right hand man, in hopes they would end it
>They don't
Sad!

the state of Mississippi didnt officially end slavery until 1995

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What always cracks me up is how he pretended to not remember anything for weeks until he one day said "yeah ok I was just pretending" during the nuremberg trials. Everything about Hess is just hilarious starting with his ridiculously big belt. What a dope.

He want hitlers right hand man anymore. He had been shit out of hitlers inner circle for a while and thos was his way of restoring hos reputation with hitler

>Rudolf Hess, sentenced to life but not released due to ill health like Raeder, Funk, or Neurath, served the longest sentence out of the seven and was by far the most demanding of the prisoners. Regarded as being the 'laziest man in Spandau', Hess avoided all forms of work that he deemed below his dignity, such as pulling weeds. He was the only one of the seven who almost never attended the prison's Sunday church service. A paranoid hypochondriac, he repeatedly complained of all forms of illness, mostly stomach pains, and was suspicious of all food given to him, always taking the dish placed farthest away from him as a means of avoiding being poisoned. His alleged stomach pains often caused wild and excessive moans and cries of pain throughout the day and night and their authenticity was repeatedly the subject of debate between the prisoners and the prison directors.

>Raeder, Dönitz, and Schirach were contemptuous of this behaviour and viewed them as cries for attention or as means to avoid work. Speer and Funk, acutely aware of the likely psychosomatic nature of the illness, were more accommodating to Hess. Speer, in a move that invoked the ire of his fellow prisoners, would often tend to Hess' needs, bringing him his coat when he was cold and coming to his defence when a director or guard was attempting to coax Hess out of bed and into work. Hess occasionally wailed in pain at night, affecting the sleep of the other prisoners. The prison's medical officer would inject Hess with what was described as a "sedative" but was in reality distilled water and succeeded in putting Hess to sleep. The fact that Hess repeatedly shirked duties the others had to bear and received other preferential treatment because of his illness, irked the other prisoners and earned him the title of "His imprisoned Lordship" by the admirals.
what the fuck was his problem?